A2 — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2021
SHRINE
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T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
July 31, 1971
HUNTINGTON — This city was buffeted by a short but vi-
cious storm Tuesday afternoon. We were drenched with .48
inches of rain in 15 minutes along with a tornado-like wind.
The temperature dropped from 99 degrees to 75 degrees
in about 25 minutes and returned to the 99 degrees very
shortly after the storm, making it very steamy and uncom-
fortable.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
July 31, 1996
Lightning-fi lled thunderstorms sparked 20 new forest
fi res on the south half of the Wallowa-Whitman National
Forest Tuesday and pelted Baker County with rain, hail and
gale-force winds.
None of the new fi res was larger than a half-acre this
morning, said Angelica Johnson, an information assistant
for the Wallowa-Whitman’s Burnt-Powder Fire Zone.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
August 1, 2011
The lightning storm that treated Baker County residents
to a dazzling light show Sunday night might also have
ignited a lackluster wildfi re season.
Forest Service and Oregon Department of Forestry
crews went looking for a couple of reported blazes after
dark Sunday, but neither found a fi re.
But Renae Crippen expects that situation will change
later today.
“I imagine by mid-day we’ll defi nitely see something,”
said Crippen, who’s the manager at the Blue Mountain
Interagency Dispatch Center at the La Grande Airport.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
July 30, 2020
Baker County Sheriff’s offi cers believe a 14-year-old boy
who waded into the water on the banks of Oxbow Reser-
voir at the eastern edge of the county stepped into a steep
drop-off and drowned Monday morning.
In an attempt to save the boy, his adult fi shing partner
also fell into the deep water and drowned, a press release
stated.
The bodies of 14-year-old Wyatt James Smith, and Mat-
thew Titus Kellogg, 41, both of Hood River, were found in
about 10 feet of water below Brownlee Dam, Ashley Mc-
Clay, Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Oxbow Reservoir is the middle of the three reservoirs
on the Snake River forming the border between Oregon
and Idaho.
Brownlee Reservoir is upriver from Oxbow, and Hells
Canyon Reservoir is downriver.
Oxbow Reservoir is about 75 miles east of Baker City.
The Baker County Sheriff’s Department was called
about 10:53 a.m. Monday by the Washington County
Sheriff’s Offi ce in Weiser, Idaho, reporting that two people
had gone underwater while fi shing from the Oregon side
at Oxbow Reservoir below Brownlee Dam. Shaun Jason
Moore, 41, Wyatt’s father, reported the incident, McClay
said.
Moore told police that his son and Kellogg had been
walking in the water while fi shing. McClay said the boy
got too far from shore and began having diffi culty and
when Kellogg tried to help him he also began having dif-
fi culty in the water.
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LUCKY LINES, July 29
3-7-10-13-17-23-26-29
Breakfast is from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Cost
is $10, or $7 without steak.
The Cattlewomen also host the “Hoofin’
It to Beef Fit” fun run/walk. The event
starts at 8 a.m.
The 5K entry is $25 and starts at
Thomas Angus Ranch, 42598 N. Cedar St.
The 10K is $35 and begins at the Macken-
zie Ranch, 19265 Chandler Lane. Find an
entry form on orcattlewomen.org.
Vendors will be set up in the park from 7
a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and a lunch of hamburg-
ers ($7) and hot dogs ($6) will be served
from noon to 2 p.m. A silent auction runs
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and two signed foot-
balls will be sold by live auction at 1 p.m.
Each year, the Cattlewomen purchase a
local steer raised by a 4-H or FFA member,
and the animal is auctioned during half-
time of the football game to raise money for
the Shriners Hospital.
This year’s steer will be at the park from
noon to 2 p.m. Guyer said that over the
years, the Shrine steer has raised about
$600,000.
Football game
COVID-19 restrictions are changing the
SOGGY
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This could also be the wet-
test three-day period at the
airport in more than a year.
There hasn’t been more
than half an inch of rain in
a three-day stretch since
May 19-21 of 2020, when the
total was 0.62. May 2020 was
also the most recent month
when rainfall at the airport
exceeded one inch — 1.11.
Through Thursday, July
29, the airport had gone 35
straight days without mea-
surable rain.
A wet weekend would be
welcome indeed for Michelle
Owen, Baker City’s public
works director.
Owen has been worried
since June that the combina-
tion of drought and persistent
hot weather would boost
water usage to a level that
would challenge the city’s
ability to satisfy it until
autumn.
Water use tends to plum-
met when any signifi cant
amount of rain falls, Owen
said, as residents take advan-
tage of free irrigation from
the sky.
“It would be nice to get a
couple of days of relief,” Owen
“It would be nice to get a
couple of days of relief.”
— Michelle Owen, Baker City
public works director, who
hopes rain this weekend will
curb the city’s water usage
said on Thursday, July 29.
On June 28 the city en-
acted the fi rst
phase of its wa-
ter curtailment
ordinance —
asking residents
to voluntarily
Owen
curb their water
use. During
June the city went through
129.9 million gallons, a 45%
increase over June 2020.
But as the record-setting
heat wave that started in
June extended into early
July, water demand remained
high, averaging about 5 mil-
lion gallons per day.
That was a rate the city
couldn’t maintain, Owen said,
and on July 12 the city moved
to Phase 2 of the ordinance,
asking residents to limit
lawn and garden watering to
between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.,
when evaporation rates
are lower and less water is
needed to nourish plants.
Summer water use is
to 10:30 a.m., then at Baker Bulldog
Memorial Stadium starting at 5 p.m.
Pre-game events start at 6 p.m., fol-
lowed by kickoff at 7 p.m. The game will
be livestreamed by EOAlive on https://
eoalive.tv/.
“And people can buy a copy of it,”
Guyer said. “It’ll be really neat for the
players and families.”
largely driven by such uses,
Owen said. During winter, the
city typically uses 1.6 million
to 1.8 million gallons per day.
Owen said the Phase 2
announcement has been mod-
estly successful.
After exceeding 5 million
gallons per day on three days
from July 1-8, the city has
stayed below that level every
day since.
“I feel like people are
complying” with the city’s
recommendation,” Owen said.
“Folks are working hard to
take the advice we’re given
and conserve.”
She said the city’s top goal
is avoiding the need to enact
— for the fi rst time — Phase
3 of the water ordinance,
which would ban the use of
city water for outdoor purpos-
es such as irrigation or wash-
ing cars. The city would seek
to enforce the ban, she said,
potentially including levying
$500 fi nes to violators.
Owen notes that although
the city has kept daily use
below the 5-million-gallon
threshold since early July, the
margin isn’t as large as she
would like to see.
From July 13 — the day
after Phase 2 was enacted
— through July 28, the city’s
daily use averaged 4.48 mil-
lion gallons. Owen said she
is hoping to see the daily use
dip below 4 million gallons,
at least occasionally, but the
minimum during that period
was 4.13 million gallons on
July 20.
That also happened to be
the coolest day of the month,
with a high temperature of 81
degrees at the airport.
The correlation between
temperature and water use,
as between rainfall and water
use, is a predictable one,
Owen said.
But with temperatures
rising into the 90s on most
days — 21 of the fi rst 30 in
July — “we’re just not getting
that relief,” Owen said.
Hottest month?
The arrival of clouds and
rain might not trim enough
degrees from July’s fi nal day
to prevent the month from
setting a heat record.
As of Friday afternoon,
July 30, the average high
temperature for the month
was 92.1 degrees. The hot-
test month on record at the
airport, where statistics date
to 1943, was July 1985, when
the average high temperature
was 92.0.
Audrey Magill
Baker City, 1930-2021
Audrey May Magill, 91, of Baker City,
died July 26, 2021.
Audrey was born on May
9, 1930, at Milwaukee, Wis-
consin, to George and Bertha
(Patteeuw) Hendrickson.
She attended high school at
Audrey
St. Francis Catholic School
Magill
in Baker.
Audrey was married three
times, to Carl Magill, Frank Nipper, and
Elmer McCoy; she also spent over 20 years
with her significant other, George Swan-
son. Audrey spent many years as a home-
maker taking good care of her children and
her home. She also worked as a waitress
in Huntington and Farewell Bend. Audrey
lived her life in Huntington and Baker,
making friends wherever she went.
She loved visiting with friends and
family and was always excited when it
was family reunion time. She also enjoyed
the outdoors, camping and huckleberry
picking.
Audrey is survived by her children, Carl
Magill, Terry Magill, Kathy McCoy, Jim
Magill and Robert Nipper; 10 grandchil-
dren and 13 great-grandchildren. Audrey
was the last survivor among her brothers
and sisters.
She was preceded in death by her par-
ents, George and Bertha Hendriksen; and
her siblings, Bob, Dolly, Jeanie, Margaret
and George.
To light a candle in Audrey’s memory, or
to leave a condolence for her family, go to
www.grayswestco.com.
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■ MONDAY: Chicken strips, mashed potatoes with country
gravy, corn, biscuits, cottage cheese and Jell-O salad, ice
cream
■ TUESDAY: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes with gravy,
peas and carrots, rolls, ambrosia cookies
■ WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, au gratin potatoes, mixed
vegetables, rolls, coleslaw, lemon squares
■ THURSDAY: Breaded pork loin, red potatoes, carrots, rolls,
fruit cup, cinnamon rolls
■ FRIDAY: Barbecued ribs, baked beans, corn, rolls, potato
salad, pudding
Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $5 donation (60 and older), $7.50
for those under 60.
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Shrine event a bit this year. For instance,
there are only 44 players total, rather
than 60. The athletes won’t be able to
visit the Portland hospital, and must
remain in a “bubble” at Eastern Oregon
University in La Grande until game day.
Tickets to the football game are $15
and can be purchased at Geiser-Pollman
Park on Saturday, Aug. 7 from 7:30 a.m.
O BITUARY
N EWS OF R ECORD
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Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald, File, 2020
Ty Morrison, left, shown here with Shriner Myron Miles, raised the 2020
Shrine steer, which was auctioned to raise money for the Shriners Hospital
for Children in Portland.
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DEATHS
Audrey Mae (Hance) Ad-
kins: 98, died July 27, 2021, 2021.
Her graveside service will take
place Monday, Aug. 2 at 10 a.m.
PDT at the Owyhee Cemetery in
Nyssa. A memorial service will
follow at the Owyhee Community
Church.
FUNERALS PENDING
Laurie Gulick: Memorial
service Sunday, Aug. 1 at 10 a.m.
at the Gulick Ranch on Pine Town
Lane in Halfway. Online condo-
lences can be made at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
Robert Kent Nelson: Memo-
rial service, Aug. 14 at 11 a.m.
at the Baker City Church of the
Nazarene, 1250 Hughes Lane. A
reception will follow the service
at the Nazarene Church’s Family
Life Center. Memorial contribu-
tions can be made to the Burnt
River Community Church or the
Northeast Oregon Compassion
Center through Gray’s West & Co.
Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave.,
Baker City, OR 97814. To leave an
online condolence for Kent’s fam-
ily, go to www.grayswestco.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
VIOLATION OF RELEASE
AGREEMENT: Shawna Lynn
Mathis, 38, Baker City, 5:45 p.m.
Thursday, July 29 in the 700 block
of Campbell Street; jailed.
VIOLATION OF RELEASE
AGREEMENT: Shawna Lynn
Mathis, 38, Baker City, 11:52 a.m.
Thursday, July 29 in the 700 block
of Campbell Street; cited and
released.
PROBATION VIOLATION (Baker
County Circuit Court warrant):
Andrew Jay Culley, 32, Baker City,
11:52 a.m. Thursday, July 29 in
the 700 block of Campbell Street;
jailed.
SECOND-DEGREE CRIMINAL
TRESPASSING: Andrew Michael
Sotelo, 21, Ellensburg, Washing-
ton, 2:52 a.m. Thursday, July 29 in
the 500 block of Campbell Street;
cited and released.
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker
County Justice Court warrant):
Joseph Allen Charbonneau, 41,
5:25 p.m. Wednesday, July 28 in
the 1100 block of Campbell Street;
cited and released.
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Baker
County Circuit Court warrant):
Brent Allan Bailey, 44, Baker City,
9:44 a.m. Wednesday, July 28 at
Hughes and Lund lanes; jailed.
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
FIRST-DEGREE THEFT, FIRST-
DEGREE FORGERY (Baker County
Circuit Court warrant): Thomas
Kelly Smit, 63, Richland, 4:52 p.m.
Thursday, July 29 on Dance Hall
Road; cited and released.
UNLAWFULLY IMPORTING
OR EXPORTING MARIJUANA
ITEMS (Baker County Circuit Court
warrant): Deanna Marie Jones,
33, Baker City, 4:35 p.m. Thursday,
July 29 at the sheriff’s offi ce; cited
and released.
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Baker
County Circuit Court warrants):
Nickolas Richard Watson, 34, 3:12
p.m. Wednesday, July 28 at the
Sheriff’s Offi ce; jailed.
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